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by jobenjo 17y ago
Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes). He created an epic masterpiece, never sold out, and left at the top of his game. He achieved fame without being drawn into celebrity, and his ideas have permeated our culture in a deep and wond
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Thanks!
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Fluther raises 600k for crowd-sourced answers.(techcrunch.com)
16 points by jobenjo 17y ago|4 comments
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Not sure why it's posted here, but this is one of my favorite stories by Woody Allen. In high school, I used it as a Humorous Interp piece for my debate class and ended up winning state. Even with his flops (I couldn't stand Whatever Works)
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Fluther is hiring for employee #1 (full-time). We're looking for an awesome backend-engineer/curious-thinker/olympic-whistler with sys/db knowledge, but many hats will be required. Dabbling is good. Python/Django/MySQL is a plus. Our office
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by jobenjo 17y ago
We already run a XMPP server for direct user notification. I'm not familiar with Growl.fm, but I can say we're not at all ideologically opposed to using an open source web service. In general, we're looking for: - Good UI/install for end us
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by jobenjo 17y ago
This looks amazing. We've been waiting for something like this that we can directly plug Fluther notifications into, without having to build and maintain our own desktop notification client. Keep up the great work.
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Django at Fluther.
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Not sure we'd trade these, but here they are: quippo.com helpcloud.com
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by jobenjo 17y ago
I think the mechanism is a bit different than what you described... if it's a user who wants to answer a question, why would http://www.mahalo.com/answers/education/does-anyone-have-any... have no answers? From the same page: Did you ask
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by jobenjo 17y ago
We're not saying that other people can't ask or answer those questions elsewhere... we're saying that copying questions verbatim, and simply removing the attribution link, is not okay. Certainly lots of different people will ask the same qu
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by jobenjo 17y ago
I agree completely. That's why this is so frustrating--on Mahalo it looks like the question is asked by a Mahalo user, not the actual Fluther submitter. And since they strip out the link, it's very hard to find attribution.
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Yeah, fair enough. This is really more about Twitter's TOS than ours. We're not trying to start a legal battle, but this feels like infringement.
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by jobenjo 17y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe if you scraped all the Q&A sites to make a massive database of questions, that would in fact get you in a lot of trouble. Honestly, I don't know if we have a case here, but I'm curious to hear what people
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Good question. Can you copyright a haiku? If you tweeted a haiku and if that haiku later appeared in a book of poetry without your attribution, would that be okay?
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by jobenjo 17y ago
But Twitter does give you copyright to your tweets, so repurposing a tweet and removing attribution seems wrong.
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An open letter to Jason Calacanis(blog.fluther.com)
126 points by jobenjo 17y ago|49 comments
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by jobenjo 18y ago
Umm... I feel like there's a huge flaw in this. He's looking at the different _channels_ in this image, but couldn't that mean there's just less blue data in that particular image? I believe that humans may be worse at seeing blue, but this
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by jobenjo 18y ago
Yeah, after reading his explanation, I wished I'd chimed in and said I'm a non-Canonical coder who's been really happy with Bazaar.
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by jobenjo 18y ago
You should check out http://www.fluther.com . We built it to exactly fit that niche: smart people, good incentives, and free.
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by jobenjo 18y ago
What, no love for me, just because I'm not a YC company? I was still in the FT article. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/23/business/smal... or http://www.fluther.com/404 Okay, now I'm embarrassed.
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by jobenjo 18y ago
+1. Also my favorite. Though at a close second is Deborah Gordon's talk on ants. It's amazing: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/deborah_gordon_digs_ants....
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by jobenjo 18y ago
The lameness of this article is that he's making all of his conclusions on 3 big companies. That's an enormous generalization. He's missing the whole lean, mean segment by looking only at the top. Try comparing the sheer number of companies
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by jobenjo 18y ago
I've been using Dvorak/Kinesis for about 4 years, and I agree mostly with what's said. After a while, I found I could still use QWERTY, at least at a decent enough level that I could just grab someone's computer and not bother remapping (th
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by jobenjo 18y ago
We launched a similar plugin with Webmynd for Fluther and so far our users have been very receptive. I have to say it's a brilliant way for them to market their service, and everybody wins.
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by jobenjo 18y ago
YUI has been doing the same thing (hosting their JS professionally), and it does really make sense. We've been doing this for years at fluther.com and it's worked out great. We have a switch for using a local copy when we're offline (on an
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by jobenjo 18y ago
I'm the co-Founder and CEO of Fluther; please don't spam our site. We have a dedicated group of volunteer moderators that remove spam, so it will be a waste of your time. My honest advice on building a real community: it takes a lot of work
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by jobenjo 19y ago
We're very proud to see Fluther.com in such excellent company.
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10 great Web site designs/redesigns of 2007(webware.com)
9 points by jobenjo 19y ago|2 comments
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by jobenjo 19y ago
I was going to do Tonik ended up being advised by a professional not to. The important thing with all these cheap plans (I have one now around a $100/month) is to make sure they don't just cover generic. If you get really sick and need spec

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